Department of Transport gives 100 gifts to poor students in Keng Du

Presenting 50 pairs of students and 50 warm blankets at Keng Du II Primary School. Photo: Nguyen Hai

The total number of gifts includes 100 gifts, worth nearly 100 million VND, including 100 felt blankets, 100 school bags and over 1,000 notebooks given to students at 2 Primary and Secondary Schools in Keng Du commune.

At the same time, 2 million VND was given to Mong Thi Ba, a poor orphan student studying in class 4D, Keng Du 2 Primary School, which is sponsored by the Department. This time, the delegation also donated 1 freezer to the Kindergarten and 5 tons of cement to the People's Committee of Keng Du commune.

Representatives of the Youth Union of the Department of Transport presented warm blankets to students of Primary School 1 and Secondary School of Keng Du commune. Photo: Nguyen Hai

At the gift-giving ceremony, on behalf of the leaders of the Department of Transport, comrade Nguyen Huu An kindly encouraged and visited, sharing difficulties with teachers and students of the school, hoping that the locality and the school will continue to strive to overcome difficulties and improve in teaching and learning.

Giving gifts to Mong Thi Ba, a student of class 4D, Keng Du II Primary School, who lost both her parents. Photo: Nguyen Hai

The above gifts are an activity in response to the province's "Support to School" program launched at the beginning of the 2018-2019 school year, in which the Department of Transport allocated half of the budget to help poor commune Keng Du. It is known that from 2012 to present, the Department of Transport has allocated an average of about 200 to 250 million VND per year to help poor commune Keng Du as assigned by the province.

Keng Du is a remote and disadvantaged commune of Ky Son district, the commune center is over 70 km from Muong Xen town. Currently, the whole commune has 936 households, mainly Khmu and Thai people; the poverty rate is 87% of households.